Honest Financial Advice

The Process

How we work

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Broad planning considerations: 

  • Retirement & College Planning

  • Employee Benefits Coordination

  • Asset Preservation/Protection

  • Risk Management and Insurance

  • Tax Liabilities

  • Estate & Legacy Planning

Initial steps:

  • Gather relevant data

  • Define goals and objectives

  • Organize and simplify

  • Run planning scenarios

Deliverables:

  • Recommendations and guidance

  • Consolidation of accounts as warranted

  • eMoney Portal access - our powerful online collaboration platform that includes:

    • Secure online account aggregation (one's we manage as well as those held elsewhere)

    • Cash Flow and Budgeting tool

    • Shared-document Vault

    • Real-time Goals/Planning feedback 

 

Investment recommendations are based upon:

  • Your measured short-term investment pain tolerance

  • A prescribed investment allocation using the results above and your long-term planning objectives

  • Investment vehicles and managers with risk/return characteristics and expenses weighed for appropriateness

 

Ongoing management includes:

  • Monitoring client portfolios regularly and adjusting, or rebalancing, on an as-needed basis

  • Revisiting goals and objectives to confirm investment allocations are still appropriate

  • Communicating throughout the journey 

 

Approaching my destination, now what?:

  • New investment time horizon considerations

  • Reassessment of risk exposures

  • Income generation strategies

  • Retirement Account distribution strategies

  • Legacy planning